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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a somewhat wavy margin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, wavy or wavy-margined; tending to be sinuate, but less uneven; undulate: said chiefly of leaves and leafmargins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot. & Zool.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany, zoology Having a slightly undulating margin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a slightly undulating margin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin repandus, bent backward : re-, re- + pandus, past participle of pandere, to spread out; see petə- in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin repandus bent backward, turned up; prefix re- re- + pandus bent, crooked.

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